It is always fun knowing something amazing that most of the people do not know, and among many interesting things we have picked the 11 easiest card tricks to learn in the world. Why card tricks are so amazing and handy to know, is because you can do them anywhere, you just need a simple deck of cards (well, sometimes a bit modified deck).
According to specialists, mastering magic tricks consist of three stages: discovery, practice, and mastery. For practicing card tricks, you’ll need to train your fingers and hand movements in order to do them properly and make it look like real magic. And never do your tricks if you haven’t mastered them! Mastering, as a final stage, consists of numerous repetitions in order to perform it smoothly and confidently. Some of the tricks require mastering of certain techniques, while for others you’ll need great memorization and counting. But there is one thing you should always have, and that is confidence, whether you are doing on the stage, street or just as a performance to your friends, because confidence leads to a great performance and control over the trick and over your audience.
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In order to find out which are the easiest card tricks to learn in the world, we’ve searched the Internet. First we visited some of the interesting and specialized websites in magic tricks such as Mentalism Knowledge, Aaron Fisher Magic, Cardtrick Teacher and Card-trick to name a few. Then we’ve gone through loads of Youtube videos to get convinced that suggested tricks were really the easiest ones, as you will see them on the list.
Many of the famous card trick and techniques have been (and are being) modified by magicians. That is why there are so many variations of tricks and their names. Here, we have tried to find most common names for the ones we picked, but in some cases that was not possible, so we left them as they are, brilliantly simple. Apart from that one, let’s see which other easiest card tricks to learn we have picked for you.
11. Cardini change card trick
The first mention of this trick was by a renowned Australian magician Jean Hugard, who explained it in one of his numerous publications on magic tricks, the Card Manipulations No. 3. As you will see in the video, this trick does require a bit of concentrated practice, but since with this single movement you can do a wonderful trick, it is worth practicing.
10. Rubik’s card
Rubik’s card trick is named this way because of similarity with solving the Rubik’s cube, and according to creators it was developed from the trick called Order from chaos. It consists of preparing the deck in a way that you arrange a certain number of cards before starting the trick without your audience knowing.
9. Think of a card
This is an amazing card trick that would always amuse your spectators, because it really looks like a mind reading trick. The trick does not require any special techniques except good memory and perception, and at the same time remembering the trick sequences so it can be done flawlessly.
8. Card to pocket
As the name suggests, the trick that comes in next on our list of easiest card tricks to learn in the world ends in pulling the card out of the pocket. It requires mastering a simple technique of card palming, but when you master it, you can make a great impression on your audience as a standalone trick or mix it with some other elements. But for the start, let’s just practice the easiest version as shown on the video.
7. Simple 3 card Monte
There are many variations of “Monte” card tricks, 2 card monte, color monte and the 3 card monte trick we have picked for our list. The 3 card monte is known under many other names, like triplets, follow the lady, follow the bee, three-card marney because it is a world famous card trick, known since mid-nineteenth century among gambling circles. Everyone you do this trick for would be familiar with the setting of the trick, but not all will know the story behind. Let’s see how it’s done.
6. Signed card
This is a great trick where you interact with your audience more, they get involved physically in the trick which makes it even more amazing in the end. The only technique you would have to master in order to make this trick look perfect is the double card lift.
5. Hindu shuffle based trick
Hindu shuffle is actually one of the techniques used in many card tricks. It consists of a certain way you shuffle the cards and “force” a spectator to choose the card you want them to. Once you master this simple technique, you can do many powerful amazing tricks, and it is also used in some of the easiest card tricks to learn in the world. Here we have picked one of them that really leaves a great effect on the spectators. Let’s see how it is done.
4. Brilliantly Simple
Simply named brilliantly simple, this is an amazing and very easy card trick number 4 on our list of easiest card tricks to learn in the world that needs very little time to master. It does not need mastering any technique, but only requires good concentration because the essence of the trick is in counting the cards, and one card more or less can make a mess and spoil the trick.
3. The final 3
Yet another trick that you’ll need to concentrate in counting the cards. Apart from counting, no other technique needs to be mastered for this trick. Since it involves 3 cards spectators pick, and some action is always happening, they will be amazed in how their cards just appear in the end when you throw out all the other cards. Now, let’s see the top two entries on our list of easiest card tricks to learn in the world.
2. The rising card
This is a very simple and widely known card trick on our list of easiest card tricks to learn in the world. You do not need to master any specific technique in order to do this trick, only a bit of preparation before you do it. That is the preparation of the deck box so you can simply “rise” the card with your finger as you can see on the video here. In order to spice things a bit you can master a simple technique called sleight of hand, and add a bit of shuffling to your trick.
1. The power of four
We have picked this trick to be the first on our list of 11 easiest card tricks to learn in the world because you literally do not need to practice anything, technique or memory, except remembering only one card. The whole secret lies in fooling your audience by moving their attention to the unimportant side of the trick. Let’s see the secret of the power of four.
